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Assistant coroner Geraint Williams took Mr McCaffrey through a series of documents detailing concerns of care staff about resident Edith Evans, 85, and the deteriorating condition of the feeding tube to her stomach. A dementia sufferer, she was admitted to hospital on September 16 2005 with MRSA and an infection to her peg feeding system. Mrs Evans, a widow, died two weeks later and a pathologist found her death was caused by sepsis that developed from the peg site – an infection which ...

“Her general condition I would describe as poor. She looked unclean, her hair was matted and unkempt. “She was dirty from faeces and in my opinion she had been in this condition for some considerable time.” Edith Evans. Picture: PA She added: “I was quite shocked at her appearance and the way she was left at the care home to come to A&E without anybody with her.” Mrs Pulman said she was asked to contact the nursing home to find out why she had not been accompanied to the hospi...

BBC News Published image captionEdith Evans spent six years at Brithdir Care Home An 85-year-old woman was sent from a care home to hospital without a member of staff, medical history or next of kin details, an inquest has heard. Edith Evans arrived at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil from Brithdir care home "unclean, with hair matted and unkempt, incontinent and dirty with faeces, and had been in this condition for some time". Her stomach feeding tube was infected with MRSA, which cau...

A&E nurse shocked by care home patient arriving unclean and dirty from faeces A coroner has heard how dementia patient Edith Evans appeared to have been neglected at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar. She arrived in hospital filthy having been so for some considerable time Pensioner Edith Evans was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil where she later died (Image: Media Wales Ltd) An elderly woman was left so poorly neglected by nursing home staff that hospital workers were lef...

An inquest in Newport is hearing evidence into the deaths of seven residents of the care home between 2003 and 2005. Brithdir was closed in 2006, with owner Dr Prana Das dying before he stood trial accused of care failings. Giving evidence Philip McCaffrey, who worked as a nurse-matron at the home from June 2005 to January 2006, said: “I would have to agree our standard of care was not acceptable.” Assistant coroner Geraint Williams asked: “The suggestion is that you or your nursi...

BBC News Published image copyrightFamily photograph image captionStanley Bradford had been a resident of the Brithdir care home for a few months when he died An elderly man "looked like something out of a prisoner of war camp" when he was taken to hospital from a care home in Caerphilly where alleged neglect took place, an inquest has heard. Gaynor Evans said she was "physically sick" when she saw how thin her father had become in August 2005. Stanley Bradford, 76, had only been at Brithdir car...

By Press Association 2021 Former miner Stanley Bradford, 76, died after living at the Brithdir Nursing Home for three months (Family handout/PA) An elderly nursing home resident was so neglected by staff that he was left looking like an inmate in a prisoner of war camp, his daughter told an inquest. Stanley Bradford, 76, died just three months after moving to the Brithdir Nursing Home, New Tredegar, South Wales in 2005. The former miner ha...

Malnourished care home resident looked like prisoner of war camp inmate Ex-miner Stanley Bradford deteriorated rapidly during the short time he lived at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, a coroner heard Stanley Bradford was 76 when he died just three months after moving to the Brithdir Nursing Home (Image: Family Handout/PA Wire) An elderly nursing home resident was so neglected by staff that he was left looking like an inmate in a prisoner of war camp, his daughter told an inquest. Stanl...

Share An inquest in Newport, Gwent, is hearing evidence into the deaths of seven residents of the care home between 2003 and 2005, some of whom suffered from dehydration, malnourishment, and pressure sores. The father of five moved to Brithdir in June 2005 and died on September 29 that year, Assistant Coroner Geraint Williams was told. The former miner (pictured at a younger age) had lived at a residential home for three years but moved because of his declining health Mr Bradfords youngest daug...

By Press Association 2021 Former miner Stanley Bradford, 76, died after living at the Brithdir Nursing Home for three months (Family handout/PA) An elderly nursing home resident was so neglected by staff that he was left looking like an inmate in a prisoner of war camp, his daughter told an inquest. Stanley Bradford, 76, died just three months after moving to the Brithdir Nursing Home, New Tredegar, South Wales in 2005. The former miner ha...